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The Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries. A wide range of rare minerals can be found here in abundance, all commanding high prices in world commodity markets. Diamonds for jewellery, tantalum, tungsten and gold for electronics; uranium used in power generation and weaponry and many others. Congo has copious deposits of raw materials that are in high demand internationally but remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
From colonisation, with the horrors of slavery and other atrocities, to a turbulent and equally brutal present in which militant groups control the mines, Congo’s richness in natural resources has brought nothing but misery. Referred to as “conflict minerals”, these riches leave only a trail of death, destruction and poverty.
Under Belgian rule, Congolese labourers were often required to meet quotas when mining different minerals. Failure could mean punishment by having a hand cut off with a machete. The country gained independence in 1960, but that didn’t put a stop to slave and child labour or to crimes being committed to extract and exploit the minerals. Warring militant fractions from inside the country and beyond seized control of mines for their own benefit while terrorising local populations.
For our translator, Bernard Kalume Buleri, his country’s history of turmoil is very personal; like most Congolese people, he and his family fell victim to the unending mineral based power struggle. Born in the year of his country’s independence, he has lived through war and seen his homeland torn apart by violent looting and greed. His story is a damning testament, illustrating how nature’s bounty, instead of being a blessing, becomes a deadly curse.
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Simon visits the Congo to see the conflicts surrounding the gold-digging industry first hand.
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In the 1970s, South Africa was the world's most prolific exporter of gold. Over the years, industrial decline has seen widespread closures of the mines across the country.
However, Johannesburg sits on the biggest gold basin ever discovered. It's perhaps not surprising that many of these abandoned mines have seen a recent boom in illegal mining activity.
Everyday, hundreds of illegal gold miners, known as Zama Zamas, descend kilometers deep beneath the surface. The miners often spend weeks underground, toiling away at the country's untapped gold reserves. Observers have suggested that illegal mining is now so widespread, black-market gold arguably supports the communities once subsistent on the very same mines they worked in before they shut down.
The lack of policing in the mines has seen the practice go on largely unabated. However, in the absence of law enforcement, the extensive network of abandoned mines beneath the region has become an arena to deadly gang warfare between rival factions. VICENews visited illegal mines near Johannesburg, to meet the Zama Zamas risking life and limb everyday in the violent struggle for South Africa's illegal gold.
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A short video of the gold mine operation here in the DRC. We operate a C208 and a B190. Enjoy!

published:16 Nov 2014

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The Mokele Mbembe | a real life dinosaur living in the Congo? We take a look at the Mokele Mbembe an alleged real life dinosaur living in the Congo.
There is something about dinosaurs that has fascinated people for years. Perhaps it's their enormous size or the fact we don't really know that much about them. Modern science will tell you that located below the waters of Mexico lies the site of an extinction event. In a geologic instant, most of the world’s animal and plant species went extinct. So why then are people seeing modern day dinosaurs in remote parts of the world. The Mokèlé-mbèmbé, which means "the one who stops the flow of rivers" is a dinosaur-like cryptid that lives in the Congo..Thank you for watching!
Thank you to CO.AG for the background music!

InsideIvory Coast's hidden gold rush takes a look at the gold mining industry in Ivory Coast. For a long time mining was seen as a dirty alternative to a more wholesome farming lifestyle. But some of the richest gold-mining potential in Africa is luring hundreds of thousands of Ivorians off the land and into the mines.
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This is a movie about diamond mining in Sierra Leone. Since the brutal civil war the Sierra Leone diamond industry is known as the source for the so called "Blood Diamonds". Diamonds that were mined under forced condition and traded on the illegal markets to purchase weapons.
More than 10 years after the war, entrepreneurs rehabilitating the mining sector; for more traceability and fair prices paid to the miners.
For more infos check out the upcoming homepage: www.smc-sl.com

published:30 Jun 2012

views:4053204

TOP 7 Countries With The MostDiamondsFound
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6. Canada
5. South Africa
4. Australia
3. The Democratic Republic of Congo
2. Botswana
1. Russia
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Ghana has had a gold rush but here, Afua Hirsch discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explores where the responsibility for regulating this industry lies.
The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana documentary
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Afua Hirsch reports on Ghana's gold rush in a film that discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explores where the responsibility for regulating this industry lies.

published:24 Apr 2013

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July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.

Congo River

The Congo River (also known as the Zaire River; French:(le) fleuve Congo/Zaïre; Portuguese:rio Congo/Zaire) is a river in Africa. It is the second largest river in the world by discharge (after the Amazon), and the world's deepest river with measured depths in excess of 220m (720ft).
The Congo-Chambeshi river has an overall length of 4,700km (2,920mi), which makes it the ninth longest river (in terms of discharge, the Chambeshi is a tributary of the Lualaba River, Lualaba being the name of the Congo River upstream of the Boyoma Falls, extending for 1,800km).
Measured along the Lualaba, the Congo River has a total length of 4,370km (2,715mi). It crosses the equator twice.
The Congo Basin has a total area of about 4 million km2, or 13% of the entire African landmass.

Name

The River Congo got its name from the Kingdom of Kongo which was situated on the left banks of the river estuary. The kingdom is in turn named for its Bantu population, in the 17th century reported as Esikongo. South of the Kongo kingdom proper lay the similarly named Kakongo kingdom, mentioned in 1535.
Abraham Ortelius in his world map of 1564 labels as Manicongo the city at the mouth of the river.
The tribal names in kongo possibly derive from a word for a public gathering or tribal assembly.

South Africa is a multiethnic society encompassing a wide variety of cultures, languages, and religions. Its pluralistic makeup is reflected in the constitution's recognition of 11 official languages, which is among the highest number of any country in the world. Two of these languages are of European origin: Afrikaans developed from Dutch and serves as the first language of most white and coloured South Africans; English reflects the legacy of British colonialism, and is commonly used in public and commercial life, though it is fourth-ranked as a spoken first language.

Plot

The Goodies are hired by a maniacally racist South African Tourist Agent to make an advertisement encouraging Britons to come to South Africa. However, the tourist agent is unhappy with what they have done, since they showed black people in South Africa having a good time. Tim points out that South Africa has many black people, but the Tourist Agent retorts that they are not having a good time. The enraged agent forces the Goodies to emigrate to South Africa.

The influx of tourist boats the Goodies' advertisement brings allows the black people an opportunity to get away from South Africa, leading to apartheid segregation disintegrating. To keep the economy going, apartheid is replaced by the new segregation of apartheight (apart-height). Tim and Graeme are tall enough not to be affected — but Bill is not quite tall enough. Bill, and the South African jockeys, are now treated as the second class citizens of South Africa, and are put under curfew. Bill is also forced to work for Tim and Graeme, who both take full advantage of Bill's newly disadvantaged position and treat him like a slave. Bill takes charge of the situation, and he and the jockeys rebel and eventually win out against their 'masters'.

2010 FIFA World Cup

The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's nationalassociation football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations; in 2004, the international football federation, FIFA, selected South Africa over Egypt and Morocco to become the first African nation to host the finals.

The matches were played in 10 stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the final played at the Soccer City stadium in South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg. Thirty-two teams were selected for participation via a worldwide qualification tournament that began in August 2007. In the first round of the tournament finals, the teams competed in round-robin groups of four teams for points, with the top two teams in each group proceeding. These 16 teams advanced to the knockout stage, where three rounds of play decided which teams would participate in the final.

The Economist

The Economist is an English language weekly newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited in offices based in London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843. For historical reasons, The Economist refers to itself as a newspaper, but each print edition appears on small glossy paper like a news magazine. In 2006, its average weekly circulation was reported to be 1.5 million, about half of which were sold in the United States.

The publication belongs to The Economist Group. It is 50% owned by private investors and 50% by Exor, the Agnelli holding company, and the Rothschild banking family of England. Exor and the Rothschilds are represented on the Board of Directors. A board of trustees formally appoints the editor, who cannot be removed without its permission. Although The Economist has a global emphasis and scope, about two-thirds of the 75 staff journalists are based in the City of Westminster, London. As of March 2014, the Economist Group declared operating profit of £59m. Previous major shareholders include Pearson PLC.

Congo, My Precious. The Curse of the coltan mines in Congo

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The Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries. A wide range of rare minerals can be found here in abundance, all commanding high prices in world commodity markets. Diamonds for jewellery, tantalum, tungsten and gold for electronics; uranium used in power generation and weaponry and many others. Congo has copious deposits of raw materials that are in high demand internationally but remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
From colonisation, with the horrors of slavery and other atrocities, to a turbulent and equally brutal present in which militant groups control the mines, Congo’s richness in natural resources has brought nothing but misery. Referred to as “conflict minerals”, these riches leave only a trail of death, destruction and poverty.
Under Belgian rule, Congolese labourers were often required to meet quotas when mining different minerals. Failure could mean punishment by having a hand cut off with a machete. The country gained independence in 1960, but that didn’t put a stop to slave and child labour or to crimes being committed to extract and exploit the minerals. Warring militant fractions from inside the country and beyond seized control of mines for their own benefit while terrorising local populations.
For our translator, Bernard Kalume Buleri, his country’s history of turmoil is very personal; like most Congolese people, he and his family fell victim to the unending mineral based power struggle. Born in the year of his country’s independence, he has lived through war and seen his homeland torn apart by violent looting and greed. His story is a damning testament, illustrating how nature’s bounty, instead of being a blessing, becomes a deadly curse.
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2:41

Digging for Gold: Conflict in The Congo - Equator - BBC

Digging for Gold: Conflict in The Congo - Equator - BBC

Digging for Gold: Conflict in The Congo - Equator - BBC

Simon visits the Congo to see the conflicts surrounding the gold-digging industry first hand.
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10:37

South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines

South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines

South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines

In the 1970s, South Africa was the world's most prolific exporter of gold. Over the years, industrial decline has seen widespread closures of the mines across the country.
However, Johannesburg sits on the biggest gold basin ever discovered. It's perhaps not surprising that many of these abandoned mines have seen a recent boom in illegal mining activity.
Everyday, hundreds of illegal gold miners, known as Zama Zamas, descend kilometers deep beneath the surface. The miners often spend weeks underground, toiling away at the country's untapped gold reserves. Observers have suggested that illegal mining is now so widespread, black-market gold arguably supports the communities once subsistent on the very same mines they worked in before they shut down.
The lack of policing in the mines has seen the practice go on largely unabated. However, in the absence of law enforcement, the extensive network of abandoned mines beneath the region has become an arena to deadly gang warfare between rival factions. VICENews visited illegal mines near Johannesburg, to meet the Zama Zamas risking life and limb everyday in the violent struggle for South Africa's illegal gold.
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Gold mining in Congo (DRC)

Kibali Gold Mine in the DRC

A short video of the gold mine operation here in the DRC. We operate a C208 and a B190. Enjoy!

11:10

The Mokele Mbembe | A Real Life Living Dinosaur Living In The Congo?

The Mokele Mbembe | A Real Life Living Dinosaur Living In The Congo?

The Mokele Mbembe | A Real Life Living Dinosaur Living In The Congo?

The Mokele Mbembe | a real life dinosaur living in the Congo? We take a look at the Mokele Mbembe an alleged real life dinosaur living in the Congo.
There is something about dinosaurs that has fascinated people for years. Perhaps it's their enormous size or the fact we don't really know that much about them. Modern science will tell you that located below the waters of Mexico lies the site of an extinction event. In a geologic instant, most of the world’s animal and plant species went extinct. So why then are people seeing modern day dinosaurs in remote parts of the world. The Mokèlé-mbèmbé, which means "the one who stops the flow of rivers" is a dinosaur-like cryptid that lives in the Congo..Thank you for watching!
Thank you to CO.AG for the background music!

Inside Ivory Coast's hidden gold rush | The Economist

InsideIvory Coast's hidden gold rush takes a look at the gold mining industry in Ivory Coast. For a long time mining was seen as a dirty alternative to a more wholesome farming lifestyle. But some of the richest gold-mining potential in Africa is luring hundreds of thousands of Ivorians off the land and into the mines.
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4:39

Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone

Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone

Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone

This is a movie about diamond mining in Sierra Leone. Since the brutal civil war the Sierra Leone diamond industry is known as the source for the so called "Blood Diamonds". Diamonds that were mined under forced condition and traded on the illegal markets to purchase weapons.
More than 10 years after the war, entrepreneurs rehabilitating the mining sector; for more traceability and fair prices paid to the miners.
For more infos check out the upcoming homepage: www.smc-sl.com

4:53

TOP 7 Countries With The Most Diamonds Found

TOP 7 Countries With The Most Diamonds Found

TOP 7 Countries With The Most Diamonds Found

TOP 7 Countries With The MostDiamondsFound
7. Angola
6. Canada
5. South Africa
4. Australia
3. The Democratic Republic of Congo
2. Botswana
1. Russia
=====================
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diamond world
diamond source
diamond productions
biggest diamond in the world
largest diamond in the world
where are diamonds found
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where to find diamonds
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how are diamonds mined
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largest producer of diamond
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Ghana has had a gold rush but here, Afua Hirsch discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explores where the responsibility for regulating this industry lies.
The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana documentary
Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD
Afua Hirsch reports on Ghana's gold rush in a film that discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explores where the responsibility for regulating this industry lies.

15:35

Grand Theft Congo - DRC

Grand Theft Congo - DRC

Grand Theft Congo - DRC

July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.

3:37

Schlitterbahn - Congo River Expedition

Schlitterbahn - Congo River Expedition

Schlitterbahn - Congo River Expedition

Deep in the heart of the rain forest guests float an ancient river teeming with wild animals, thundering waterfalls and an underground mine. The Congo River is a level, slow-flowing river for inner tubes that is great for a lazy, relaxing float on a hot Texas day. And the best part is you only have to get out when you want to! You can enter the Congo River at various points around the river or from the Raging River tube chute which flows directly into the Congo River.

Mponeng is a gold mine in South Africa'sGauteng province. It extends over 4 kilometres below the surface, and is considered to be one of the most substantial gold mines in the world. It is also currently the world's deepest mine. The trip from the surface to the bottom of the mine takes over an hour.
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Congo, My Precious. The Curse of the coltan mines in Congo

Watch more https://rtd.rt.com/tags/illegal-mining/
The Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries. A wide range of rare minerals can be found here in abundance, all commanding high prices in world commodity markets. Diamonds for jewellery, tantalum, tungsten and gold for electronics; uranium used in power generation and weaponry and many others. Congo has copious deposits of raw materials that are in high demand internationally but remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
From colonisation, with the horrors of slavery and other atrocities, to a turbulent and equally brutal present in which militant groups control the mines, Congo’s richness in natural resources has brought nothing but misery. Referred to as “conflict minerals”, th...

published: 05 Jul 2017

Digging for Gold: Conflict in The Congo - Equator - BBC

Simon visits the Congo to see the conflicts surrounding the gold-digging industry first hand.
Subscribe to the BBC Studios channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=BBCWorldwide
BBC Studios Channel: http://www.youtube.com/BBCStudios
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published: 02 Jan 2015

South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines

In the 1970s, South Africa was the world's most prolific exporter of gold. Over the years, industrial decline has seen widespread closures of the mines across the country.
However, Johannesburg sits on the biggest gold basin ever discovered. It's perhaps not surprising that many of these abandoned mines have seen a recent boom in illegal mining activity.
Everyday, hundreds of illegal gold miners, known as Zama Zamas, descend kilometers deep beneath the surface. The miners often spend weeks underground, toiling away at the country's untapped gold reserves. Observers have suggested that illegal mining is now so widespread, black-market gold arguably supports the communities once subsistent on the very same mines they worked in before they shut down.
The lack of policing in the mines has...

Gold mining in Congo (DRC)

Kibali Gold Mine in the DRC

A short video of the gold mine operation here in the DRC. We operate a C208 and a B190. Enjoy!

published: 16 Nov 2014

The Mokele Mbembe | A Real Life Living Dinosaur Living In The Congo?

The Mokele Mbembe | a real life dinosaur living in the Congo? We take a look at the Mokele Mbembe an alleged real life dinosaur living in the Congo.
There is something about dinosaurs that has fascinated people for years. Perhaps it's their enormous size or the fact we don't really know that much about them. Modern science will tell you that located below the waters of Mexico lies the site of an extinction event. In a geologic instant, most of the world’s animal and plant species went extinct. So why then are people seeing modern day dinosaurs in remote parts of the world. The Mokèlé-mbèmbé, which means "the one who stops the flow of rivers" is a dinosaur-like cryptid that lives in the Congo..Thank you for watching!
Thank you to CO.AG for the background music!

Inside Ivory Coast's hidden gold rush | The Economist

InsideIvory Coast's hidden gold rush takes a look at the gold mining industry in Ivory Coast. For a long time mining was seen as a dirty alternative to a more wholesome farming lifestyle. But some of the richest gold-mining potential in Africa is luring hundreds of thousands of Ivorians off the land and into the mines.
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http://econ.trib.al/rWl91R7
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published: 06 May 2016

Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone

This is a movie about diamond mining in Sierra Leone. Since the brutal civil war the Sierra Leone diamond industry is known as the source for the so called "Blood Diamonds". Diamonds that were mined under forced condition and traded on the illegal markets to purchase weapons.
More than 10 years after the war, entrepreneurs rehabilitating the mining sector; for more traceability and fair prices paid to the miners.
For more infos check out the upcoming homepage: www.smc-sl.com

published: 30 Jun 2012

TOP 7 Countries With The Most Diamonds Found

TOP 7 Countries With The MostDiamondsFound
7. Angola
6. Canada
5. South Africa
4. Australia
3. The Democratic Republic of Congo
2. Botswana
1. Russia
=====================
diamond nation
diamond world
diamond source
diamond productions
biggest diamond in the world
largest diamond in the world
where are diamonds found
diamond mines in africa
diamonds in africa
where to find diamonds
which is the best country in the world
how are diamonds mined
area of a diamond
best diamonds in the world
largest producer of diamond
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Ghana has had a gold rush but here, Afua Hirsch discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explores where the responsibility for regulating this industry lies.
The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana documentary
Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD
Afua Hirsch reports on Ghana's gold rush in a film that discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explor...

published: 24 Apr 2013

Grand Theft Congo - DRC

July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is...

published: 07 Nov 2007

Schlitterbahn - Congo River Expedition

Deep in the heart of the rain forest guests float an ancient river teeming with wild animals, thundering waterfalls and an underground mine. The Congo River is a level, slow-flowing river for inner tubes that is great for a lazy, relaxing float on a hot Texas day. And the best part is you only have to get out when you want to! You can enter the Congo River at various points around the river or from the Raging River tube chute which flows directly into the Congo River.

Mponeng is a gold mine in South Africa'sGauteng province. It extends over 4 kilometres below the surface, and is considered to be one of the most substantial gold mines in the world. It is also currently the world's deepest mine. The trip from the surface to the bottom of the mine takes over an hour.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries. A wide range of rare minerals can be found here in abundance, all commanding high prices in world commodity markets. Diamonds for jewellery, tantalum, tungsten and gold for electronics; uranium used in power generation and weaponry and many others. Congo has copious deposits of raw materials that are in high demand internationally but remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
From colonisation, with the horrors of slavery and other atrocities, to a turbulent and equally brutal present in which militant groups control the mines, Congo’s richness in natural resources has brought nothing but misery. Referred to as “conflict minerals”, these riches leave only a trail of death, destruction and poverty.
Under Belgian rule, Congolese labourers were often required to meet quotas when mining different minerals. Failure could mean punishment by having a hand cut off with a machete. The country gained independence in 1960, but that didn’t put a stop to slave and child labour or to crimes being committed to extract and exploit the minerals. Warring militant fractions from inside the country and beyond seized control of mines for their own benefit while terrorising local populations.
For our translator, Bernard Kalume Buleri, his country’s history of turmoil is very personal; like most Congolese people, he and his family fell victim to the unending mineral based power struggle. Born in the year of his country’s independence, he has lived through war and seen his homeland torn apart by violent looting and greed. His story is a damning testament, illustrating how nature’s bounty, instead of being a blessing, becomes a deadly curse.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries. A wide range of rare minerals can be found here in abundance, all commanding high prices in world commodity markets. Diamonds for jewellery, tantalum, tungsten and gold for electronics; uranium used in power generation and weaponry and many others. Congo has copious deposits of raw materials that are in high demand internationally but remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
From colonisation, with the horrors of slavery and other atrocities, to a turbulent and equally brutal present in which militant groups control the mines, Congo’s richness in natural resources has brought nothing but misery. Referred to as “conflict minerals”, these riches leave only a trail of death, destruction and poverty.
Under Belgian rule, Congolese labourers were often required to meet quotas when mining different minerals. Failure could mean punishment by having a hand cut off with a machete. The country gained independence in 1960, but that didn’t put a stop to slave and child labour or to crimes being committed to extract and exploit the minerals. Warring militant fractions from inside the country and beyond seized control of mines for their own benefit while terrorising local populations.
For our translator, Bernard Kalume Buleri, his country’s history of turmoil is very personal; like most Congolese people, he and his family fell victim to the unending mineral based power struggle. Born in the year of his country’s independence, he has lived through war and seen his homeland torn apart by violent looting and greed. His story is a damning testament, illustrating how nature’s bounty, instead of being a blessing, becomes a deadly curse.
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Digging for Gold: Conflict in The Congo - Equator - BBC

Simon visits the Congo to see the conflicts surrounding the gold-digging industry first hand.
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Simon visits the Congo to see the conflicts surrounding the gold-digging industry first hand.
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Simon visits the Congo to see the conflicts surrounding the gold-digging industry first hand.
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South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines

In the 1970s, South Africa was the world's most prolific exporter of gold. Over the years, industrial decline has seen widespread closures of the mines across t...

In the 1970s, South Africa was the world's most prolific exporter of gold. Over the years, industrial decline has seen widespread closures of the mines across the country.
However, Johannesburg sits on the biggest gold basin ever discovered. It's perhaps not surprising that many of these abandoned mines have seen a recent boom in illegal mining activity.
Everyday, hundreds of illegal gold miners, known as Zama Zamas, descend kilometers deep beneath the surface. The miners often spend weeks underground, toiling away at the country's untapped gold reserves. Observers have suggested that illegal mining is now so widespread, black-market gold arguably supports the communities once subsistent on the very same mines they worked in before they shut down.
The lack of policing in the mines has seen the practice go on largely unabated. However, in the absence of law enforcement, the extensive network of abandoned mines beneath the region has become an arena to deadly gang warfare between rival factions. VICENews visited illegal mines near Johannesburg, to meet the Zama Zamas risking life and limb everyday in the violent struggle for South Africa's illegal gold.
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In the 1970s, South Africa was the world's most prolific exporter of gold. Over the years, industrial decline has seen widespread closures of the mines across the country.
However, Johannesburg sits on the biggest gold basin ever discovered. It's perhaps not surprising that many of these abandoned mines have seen a recent boom in illegal mining activity.
Everyday, hundreds of illegal gold miners, known as Zama Zamas, descend kilometers deep beneath the surface. The miners often spend weeks underground, toiling away at the country's untapped gold reserves. Observers have suggested that illegal mining is now so widespread, black-market gold arguably supports the communities once subsistent on the very same mines they worked in before they shut down.
The lack of policing in the mines has seen the practice go on largely unabated. However, in the absence of law enforcement, the extensive network of abandoned mines beneath the region has become an arena to deadly gang warfare between rival factions. VICENews visited illegal mines near Johannesburg, to meet the Zama Zamas risking life and limb everyday in the violent struggle for South Africa's illegal gold.
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The Mokele Mbembe | A Real Life Living Dinosaur Living In The Congo?

The Mokele Mbembe | a real life dinosaur living in the Congo? We take a look at the Mokele Mbembe an alleged real life dinosaur living in the Congo.
There is ...

The Mokele Mbembe | a real life dinosaur living in the Congo? We take a look at the Mokele Mbembe an alleged real life dinosaur living in the Congo.
There is something about dinosaurs that has fascinated people for years. Perhaps it's their enormous size or the fact we don't really know that much about them. Modern science will tell you that located below the waters of Mexico lies the site of an extinction event. In a geologic instant, most of the world’s animal and plant species went extinct. So why then are people seeing modern day dinosaurs in remote parts of the world. The Mokèlé-mbèmbé, which means "the one who stops the flow of rivers" is a dinosaur-like cryptid that lives in the Congo..Thank you for watching!
Thank you to CO.AG for the background music!

The Mokele Mbembe | a real life dinosaur living in the Congo? We take a look at the Mokele Mbembe an alleged real life dinosaur living in the Congo.
There is something about dinosaurs that has fascinated people for years. Perhaps it's their enormous size or the fact we don't really know that much about them. Modern science will tell you that located below the waters of Mexico lies the site of an extinction event. In a geologic instant, most of the world’s animal and plant species went extinct. So why then are people seeing modern day dinosaurs in remote parts of the world. The Mokèlé-mbèmbé, which means "the one who stops the flow of rivers" is a dinosaur-like cryptid that lives in the Congo..Thank you for watching!
Thank you to CO.AG for the background music!

Inside Ivory Coast's hidden gold rush | The Economist

InsideIvory Coast's hidden gold rush takes a look at the gold mining industry in Ivory Coast. For a long time mining was seen as a dirty alternative to a more ...

InsideIvory Coast's hidden gold rush takes a look at the gold mining industry in Ivory Coast. For a long time mining was seen as a dirty alternative to a more wholesome farming lifestyle. But some of the richest gold-mining potential in Africa is luring hundreds of thousands of Ivorians off the land and into the mines.
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InsideIvory Coast's hidden gold rush takes a look at the gold mining industry in Ivory Coast. For a long time mining was seen as a dirty alternative to a more wholesome farming lifestyle. But some of the richest gold-mining potential in Africa is luring hundreds of thousands of Ivorians off the land and into the mines.
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Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone

This is a movie about diamond mining in Sierra Leone. Since the brutal civil war the Sierra Leone diamond industry is known as the source for the so called "Blo...

This is a movie about diamond mining in Sierra Leone. Since the brutal civil war the Sierra Leone diamond industry is known as the source for the so called "Blood Diamonds". Diamonds that were mined under forced condition and traded on the illegal markets to purchase weapons.
More than 10 years after the war, entrepreneurs rehabilitating the mining sector; for more traceability and fair prices paid to the miners.
For more infos check out the upcoming homepage: www.smc-sl.com

This is a movie about diamond mining in Sierra Leone. Since the brutal civil war the Sierra Leone diamond industry is known as the source for the so called "Blood Diamonds". Diamonds that were mined under forced condition and traded on the illegal markets to purchase weapons.
More than 10 years after the war, entrepreneurs rehabilitating the mining sector; for more traceability and fair prices paid to the miners.
For more infos check out the upcoming homepage: www.smc-sl.com

TOP 7 Countries With The MostDiamondsFound
7. Angola
6. Canada
5. South Africa
4. Australia
3. The Democratic Republic of Congo
2. Botswana
1. Russia
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3. The Democratic Republic of Congo
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1. Russia
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Ghana has had a gold rush but here, Afua Hirsch discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explores where the responsibility for regulating this industry lies.
The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana documentary
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Afua Hirsch reports on Ghana's gold rush in a film that discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explores where the responsibility for regulating this industry lies.

Ghana has had a gold rush but here, Afua Hirsch discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explores where the responsibility for regulating this industry lies.
The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana documentary
Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD
Afua Hirsch reports on Ghana's gold rush in a film that discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explores where the responsibility for regulating this industry lies.

July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.

July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.

Schlitterbahn - Congo River Expedition

Deep in the heart of the rain forest guests float an ancient river teeming with wild animals, thundering waterfalls and an underground mine. The Congo River is ...

Deep in the heart of the rain forest guests float an ancient river teeming with wild animals, thundering waterfalls and an underground mine. The Congo River is a level, slow-flowing river for inner tubes that is great for a lazy, relaxing float on a hot Texas day. And the best part is you only have to get out when you want to! You can enter the Congo River at various points around the river or from the Raging River tube chute which flows directly into the Congo River.

Deep in the heart of the rain forest guests float an ancient river teeming with wild animals, thundering waterfalls and an underground mine. The Congo River is a level, slow-flowing river for inner tubes that is great for a lazy, relaxing float on a hot Texas day. And the best part is you only have to get out when you want to! You can enter the Congo River at various points around the river or from the Raging River tube chute which flows directly into the Congo River.

Mponeng is a gold mine in South Africa'sGauteng province. It extends over 4 kilometres below the surface, and is considered to be one of the most substantial gold mines in the world. It is also currently the world's deepest mine. The trip from the surface to the bottom of the mine takes over an hour.
Video link: https://youtu.be/6ZtYInuOKtE
Thanks for watching

Mponeng is a gold mine in South Africa'sGauteng province. It extends over 4 kilometres below the surface, and is considered to be one of the most substantial gold mines in the world. It is also currently the world's deepest mine. The trip from the surface to the bottom of the mine takes over an hour.
Video link: https://youtu.be/6ZtYInuOKtE
Thanks for watching

Congo, My Precious. The Curse of the coltan mines in Congo

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The Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries. A wide range of rare minerals can be found here in abundance, all commanding high prices in world commodity markets. Diamonds for jewellery, tantalum, tungsten and gold for electronics; uranium used in power generation and weaponry and many others. Congo has copious deposits of raw materials that are in high demand internationally but remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
From colonisation, with the horrors of slavery and other atrocities, to a turbulent and equally brutal present in which militant groups control the mines, Congo’s richness in natural resources has brought nothing but misery. Referred to as “conflict minerals”, these riches leave only a trail of death, destruction and poverty.
Under Belgian rule, Congolese labourers were often required to meet quotas when mining different minerals. Failure could mean punishment by having a hand cut off with a machete. The country gained independence in 1960, but that didn’t put a stop to slave and child labour or to crimes being committed to extract and exploit the minerals. Warring militant fractions from inside the country and beyond seized control of mines for their own benefit while terrorising local populations.
For our translator, Bernard Kalume Buleri, his country’s history of turmoil is very personal; like most Congolese people, he and his family fell victim to the unending mineral based power struggle. Born in the year of his country’s independence, he has lived through war and seen his homeland torn apart by violent looting and greed. His story is a damning testament, illustrating how nature’s bounty, instead of being a blessing, becomes a deadly curse.
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Digging for Gold: Conflict in The Congo - Equator - BBC

Simon visits the Congo to see the conflicts surrounding the gold-digging industry first hand.
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South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines

In the 1970s, South Africa was the world's most prolific exporter of gold. Over the years, industrial decline has seen widespread closures of the mines across the country.
However, Johannesburg sits on the biggest gold basin ever discovered. It's perhaps not surprising that many of these abandoned mines have seen a recent boom in illegal mining activity.
Everyday, hundreds of illegal gold miners, known as Zama Zamas, descend kilometers deep beneath the surface. The miners often spend weeks underground, toiling away at the country's untapped gold reserves. Observers have suggested that illegal mining is now so widespread, black-market gold arguably supports the communities once subsistent on the very same mines they worked in before they shut down.
The lack of policing in the mines has seen the practice go on largely unabated. However, in the absence of law enforcement, the extensive network of abandoned mines beneath the region has become an arena to deadly gang warfare between rival factions. VICENews visited illegal mines near Johannesburg, to meet the Zama Zamas risking life and limb everyday in the violent struggle for South Africa's illegal gold.
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The Mokele Mbembe | A Real Life Living Dinosaur Living In The Congo?

The Mokele Mbembe | a real life dinosaur living in the Congo? We take a look at the Mokele Mbembe an alleged real life dinosaur living in the Congo.
There is something about dinosaurs that has fascinated people for years. Perhaps it's their enormous size or the fact we don't really know that much about them. Modern science will tell you that located below the waters of Mexico lies the site of an extinction event. In a geologic instant, most of the world’s animal and plant species went extinct. So why then are people seeing modern day dinosaurs in remote parts of the world. The Mokèlé-mbèmbé, which means "the one who stops the flow of rivers" is a dinosaur-like cryptid that lives in the Congo..Thank you for watching!
Thank you to CO.AG for the background music!

Inside Ivory Coast's hidden gold rush | The Economist

InsideIvory Coast's hidden gold rush takes a look at the gold mining industry in Ivory Coast. For a long time mining was seen as a dirty alternative to a more wholesome farming lifestyle. But some of the richest gold-mining potential in Africa is luring hundreds of thousands of Ivorians off the land and into the mines.
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Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone

This is a movie about diamond mining in Sierra Leone. Since the brutal civil war the Sierra Leone diamond industry is known as the source for the so called "Blood Diamonds". Diamonds that were mined under forced condition and traded on the illegal markets to purchase weapons.
More than 10 years after the war, entrepreneurs rehabilitating the mining sector; for more traceability and fair prices paid to the miners.
For more infos check out the upcoming homepage: www.smc-sl.com

TOP 7 Countries With The Most Diamonds Found

TOP 7 Countries With The MostDiamondsFound
7. Angola
6. Canada
5. South Africa
4. Australia
3. The Democratic Republic of Congo
2. Botswana
1. Russia
=====================
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diamond productions
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Ghana has had a gold rush but here, Afua Hirsch discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explores where the responsibility for regulating this industry lies.
The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana documentary
Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD
Afua Hirsch reports on Ghana's gold rush in a film that discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country's small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life and limb for a piece of the same pie, the risks are rarely worth it, and explores where the responsibility for regulating this industry lies.

Grand Theft Congo - DRC

July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In theDRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.

Schlitterbahn - Congo River Expedition

Deep in the heart of the rain forest guests float an ancient river teeming with wild animals, thundering waterfalls and an underground mine. The Congo River is a level, slow-flowing river for inner tubes that is great for a lazy, relaxing float on a hot Texas day. And the best part is you only have to get out when you want to! You can enter the Congo River at various points around the river or from the Raging River tube chute which flows directly into the Congo River.

Mponeng is a gold mine in South Africa'sGauteng province. It extends over 4 kilometres below the surface, and is considered to be one of the most substantial gold mines in the world. It is also currently the world's deepest mine. The trip from the surface to the bottom of the mine takes over an hour.
Video link: https://youtu.be/6ZtYInuOKtE
Thanks for watching

Congo River

The Congo River (also known as the Zaire River; French:(le) fleuve Congo/Zaïre; Portuguese:rio Congo/Zaire) is a river in Africa. It is the second largest river in the world by discharge (after the Amazon), and the world's deepest river with measured depths in excess of 220m (720ft).
The Congo-Chambeshi river has an overall length of 4,700km (2,920mi), which makes it the ninth longest river (in terms of discharge, the Chambeshi is a tributary of the Lualaba River, Lualaba being the name of the Congo River upstream of the Boyoma Falls, extending for 1,800km).
Measured along the Lualaba, the Congo River has a total length of 4,370km (2,715mi). It crosses the equator twice.
The Congo Basin has a total area of about 4 million km2, or 13% of the entire African landmass.

Name

The River Congo got its name from the Kingdom of Kongo which was situated on the left banks of the river estuary. The kingdom is in turn named for its Bantu population, in the 17th century reported as Esikongo. South of the Kongo kingdom proper lay the similarly named Kakongo kingdom, mentioned in 1535.
Abraham Ortelius in his world map of 1564 labels as Manicongo the city at the mouth of the river.
The tribal names in kongo possibly derive from a word for a public gathering or tribal assembly.